Available Copies from Independent Booksellers
Evelyn Waugh. Tactical Exercise. LIttle Brown, Boston, 1954.
Price: US$10.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Minor wear to edges and corners, clean and unmarked. Jacket shows wear and small tears to edges, chip at top of spine (not affecting title), 1/4" hole in front, not price clipped. A collection of twelve short stories.
Seller: Trench Books, Hudson, ME, U.S.A.
Waugh, Evelyn. Tactical Exercise. Little Brown & Company, Little Brown & Company, 1954.
Price: US$12.50 + shipping
Description: B015462; 289 pp hardcover, very good contents & covers, no dustjacket
Seller: Hammonds Antiques & Books, St. Louis, MO, U.S.A.
Evelyn Waugh. Tactical Exercise. Little, Brown, Boston, 1954.
Price: US$12.74 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: First edition second printing octavo hardback 294 pp. Good + condition ( spine titles dulled) No inscriptions. Collection of short stories including Love Among the Ruins - only issued in this form in USA
Seller: Alexander's Books, Royal Leamington Spa, United Kingdom
Waugh, Evelyn. Tactical Exercise. Little, Brown, Boston, 1954.
Price: US$13.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Boston: Little, Brown, 1954. 1st USA edition, VG+/G. Book has wear to spine ends, bumped upper corners. DJ has last two pages sliced on lower corners (does not affect text), wear & chipping to spine ends & corners, scattered edge wear with a few closed tears. A collection of 12 short stories, all with a patented wry humor. 289 pp.
Seller: Blue Skye Books, Novato, CA, U.S.A.
Evelyn Waugh. Tactical Exercise. Little Brown and Co, 1954.
Price: US$15.00 + shipping
Condition: Fair
Description: ISBN . B0B2K84VGM Hardback. Later edition of 1936 original. No Dustjacket. Reading Copy Only. Ex-Library with the usual faults, card pocket, ink stamps, etc. Tight sound copy with average wear.
Seller: Tacoma Book Center, Tacoma, WA, U.S.A.
WAUGH, EVELYN. Tactical Exercise. Little Brown, Boston, 1954.
Price: US$15.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: First American edition, Second printing. A collection of stories and shorter works, including Love Among the Ruins, a picture of Britain in the near future, where there are no criminals, only victims of inadequate social services. There was no British version of this collection. Spine ends lightly bumped, else a lovely fine copy, lacking the dustjacket.
Seller: Fireproof Books, MINNETONKA, MN, U.S.A.
Waugh, Evelyn. Tactical Exercise. Boston: Little, Brown & Co., 1954.
Price: US$16.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Very Good hardcover in green cloth boards w/out dj (fading to gilt spinal lettering and some shelf wear to top spine). Clean text and tight binding. "Reprinted November 1954" stated to copyright page. 289pp.
Seller: Peter Lenz Bookseller, Cohoes, NY, U.S.A.
WAUGH, Evelyn. Tactical Exercise. Little, Brown and Co, 1954.
Price: US$16.50 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 289pp, small octavo; tight binding, light wear to book covers, interior and text clean, minor wear to dj covers, slight loss at top spine end, no other tears, in mylar cover, Very Good-.
Seller: COLLINS BOOKS, Seattle, WA, U.S.A.
WAUGH, EVELYN. TACTICAL EXERCISE. LITTLE, BROWN & CO., BOSTON, MA., 1954.
Price: US$17.50 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: small chip to the unclipped dj.
Seller: Gian Luigi Fine Books, albany, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$17.50 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: Clean copy, no marks, gilt brilliant. DJ with light wear at corners, 1" closed tear bottom of front panel, 1/2" open tear top rear spine edge, minute losses at corners and top and bottom of spine.
Seller: Arroyo Seco Books, Pasadena, Member IOBA, Pasadena, CA, U.S.A.
WAUGH, Evelyn. Tactical Exercise. Little Brown, Boston, 1954.
Price: US$18.75 + shipping
Description: 8vo, green cloth, Boston: Litle Brown, (1954). First American Edition. Spine lightly sunned, otherwise fine, lacking dust wrapper.
Seller: Argosy Book Store, ABAA, ILAB, New York, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$22.50 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Clean Copy, No Marks, Gilt Brilliant. Dj With Slight Wear At Corners And A Fe Points At Edges, 1/8" Chip Middle Of Rear Spine Edge, 3/16" X 5/8" Chip Middle Of Rear Flap Fold.
Seller: Arroyo Seco Books, Pasadena, Member IOBA, Pasadena, CA, U.S.A.
Waugh, Evelyn. Tactical Exercise. Little Brown and Co, Boston, 1954.
Price: US$25.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: Octavo. 289pp. A fine copy in lvery good dj Price clipped.
Seller: Old New York Book Shop, ABAA, Atlanta, GA, U.S.A.
Evelyn Waugh. TACTICAL EXERCISE. Little, Brown & Co., Boston, 1954.
Price: US$25.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 6 x 9 in. Blue cloth boards. Condition is VERY GOOD+ ; minor wear, covers very clean, just barely toned at edges. Binding tight and text spotless. DJ is VERY GOOD ; not clipped ($3.75) very clean but toned, more so at spine. Edges chipped. In a new Mylar wrapper. Fic. RGR.
Seller: Andre Strong Bookseller, Blue Hill, ME, U.S.A.
Evelyn Waugh. TACTICAL EXERCISE. Little, Brown, Boston, 1954.
Price: US$25.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 6 x 9 in. Cloth boards. Condition is VERY GOOD ; covers clean, minor shelf wear. BInding tight. PO's name on ffep, text unmarked. DJ is GOOD+ ; clean, not clipped, spine toned, edges chipped. Fic. RGR.
Seller: Andre Strong Bookseller, Blue Hill, ME, U.S.A.
Waugh, Evelyn. Tactical Exercise. Little Brown, 1954.
Price: US$27.50 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: VG+ book in Fine slipcase. Spine is faded with slight wear to extremities, bright gilt titles to spine. No other defects. Binding is tight, pages are clean and unmarked. Lacking the dust jacket. . Twelve short stories by the great English author in a Fine army-green buckram slipcase. This is the first edition, stated. . 8vo 8" - 9" tall. 298 pages. I2
Seller: Sweet Beagle Books, Bloomington, IN, U.S.A.
Evelyn Waugh. Tactical Exercise. Little,Brown, Boston, 1954.
Price: US$28.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Green covers with gilt lettering on this stated 1st edition.The binding is tight. Light soil line to outer front edge and previous owners' name to ffp. The DJ is bright and clean, however does have light corner wear, light chipping to top and bottom of the spine. Six tiny holes near the "tic" of the title. Not price clipped and in new archival sleeve.
Seller: Deborah Fiegl, Bookseller, Perry, NY, U.S.A.
Waugh, Evelyn. TACTICAL EXERCISE. Little, Brown, 1954.
Price: US$29.00 + shipping
Description: TACTICAL EXERCISE, Little, Brown, 1954, lst ed., fine in an attractive dust-wrapper with some wear and tear and chipping. Not published in the U.K.
Seller: THE FINE BOOKS COMPANY / A.B.A.A / 1979, ROCHESTER, MI, U.S.A.
Waugh, Evelyn. Tactical Exercise. Little, Brown and Company, New York, 1954.
Price: US$29.94 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 8vo. 289pp. Corners bumped, covers soiled. Erasure mark on ffep.
Seller: Karol Krysik Books ABAC/ILAB, IOBA, PBFA, Toronto, ON, Canada
WAUGH, Evelyn. Tactical Exercise. Little, Brown, Boston, 1954.
Price: US$30.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Bound in blue-green cloth, stamped in gold in matching (price-clipped) dust jacket. Wear to spine ends (and a pencil eraser sized chip to top of spine), but not affecting any text and the book and the jacket are still bright and clean. A very acceptable copy of the first U.S. edition (no British edition) which introduces the story, "Love Among the Ruins". 289 pp.
Seller: Michael J. Toth, Bookseller, ABAA, Springtown, PA, U.S.A.
Waugh, Evelyn.. Tactical Exercise.. Boston: Little, Brown, (1954)., 1954.
Price: US$35.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: True first edition (not published in England). Green cloth. Previous owner's name in ink, else VG, in tape-reinforced DJ with chips at head and foot of spine, edge wear, tear along one edge, G.
Seller: Pride and Prejudice-Books, Ballston Lake, NY, U.S.A.
WAUGH, Evelyn. Tactical Exercise. Little, Brown and Company, Boston, 1954.
Price: US$50.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First edition. Page edges foxed, spine ends and corners rubbed and bumped, spine slightly cocked, very good in a good only edgeworn dustwrapper with some loss on the spine ends, faint dampstain on spine and front panel.
Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.
Evelyn Waugh. Tactical Exercise. Little, Brown and Company, Boston, 1954.
Price: US$50.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: Stated First Edition. Original slate gray cloth. Decorated gray dust jacket. 8vo. 289 pp. Near Fine. Minor rubbing to spine. Boards remarkably pristine. Very slight soiling to endpapers. The binding is very tight. DJ is VG+. Bears some edgewear. Not price clipped. Now mylar protected. Arthur Evelyn St. John Waugh (1903 - 1966) was an English writer of novels, biographies and travel books. He was also a prolific journalist and reviewer of books. His most famous works include the early satires Decline and Fall (1928) and A Handful of Dust (1934), the novel Brideshead Revisited (1945) and the Second World War trilogy Sword of Honour (1952 - 61). Waugh is recognised as one of the great prose stylists of the English language in the 20th century. Size: 8vo
Seller: Hirschfeld Galleries, Saint Louis, MO, U.S.A.
Waugh, Evelyn. Tactical Exercise. Little, Brown & Co, Boston, 1954.
Price: US$55.00 + shipping
Condition: Fair
Description: Boston: Little, Brown & Co., 1954 289 pp. text is clean, tight and unmarked. Green boards with gold stamped title are bumped, faded and spotted at spine. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Stated First Edition. Hardcover. Fair/No Jacket.
Seller: Catron Grant Books, Rio Rancho, NM, U.S.A.
Waugh, Evelyn. Tactical Exercise. Little Brown & Co., Boston, 1954.
Price: US$55.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: 289, Originally priced at $3.75/green jacket with man in black and white and black lettering on front and spine/jacket in mylar/; Tears at top and bottom spine/tear at front top corner
Seller: Ann Becker, Houston, TX, U.S.A.
Waugh, Evelyn. TACTICAL EXERCISE. Little, Brown & Company, 1954.
Price: US$56.25 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: ; Green cloth cover has modest wear to corners and spine caps and lightly bumped lower front corner but clean, bright, and in very good+ condition. Boards and spine are straight. Binding is tight. Pages are clean and in very good condition. Dust jacket has 2 tears to upper spine panel and light wear to extremities but clean, bright, and in good+ condition. Publisher's price of $3.75 on DJ flap. DJ protected by a brand new, clear, acid-free mylar cover. We add mylar covers to all books with DJs to preserve the DJs and add luster to magnify their beauty. (If pictured, shown without the mylar cover for an accurate representation of dust jacket. ); 233 pages
Seller: Sage Rare & Collectible Books, IOBA, Livonia, MI, U.S.A.
Evelyn Waugh. TACTICAL EXERCISE. Little, Brown & Company, Boston, 1954.
Price: US$60.95 + shipping
Description: Very Good+ in boards.
Seller: Rare Book Cellar, Pomona, NY, U.S.A.
WAUGH, Evelyn. Tactical Exercise. Little, Brown and Company, Boston, 1954.
Price: US$85.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First edition. Page edges lightly soiled, spine ends and corners lightly rubbed and bumped, very good in a good only edgeworn and chipped dust jacket with top corner of rear flap torn off affecting some of the text.
Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.
WAUGH, Evelyn. Tactical Exercise. Little Brown, Boston, 1954.
Price: US$85.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: 8vo, green cloth, d.w. (price-clipped, edge-chipped & dust soiled on the white back panel). Boston: Litle Brown, (1954). First American Edition. A collection of the author's shorter works. There was no English edition.
Seller: Argosy Book Store, ABAA, ILAB, New York, NY, U.S.A.
WAUGH, EVELYN. TACTICAL EXERCISE. BOSTON LITTLE, BROWN AND CO 1954., 1954.
Price: US$90.00 + shipping
Description: F/VG+. THIS AMERICAN TITLE NOT PUBLISHED IN GREAT BRITIAN AND CONTAINS THE FIRST AMERICAN APPEARANCE OF "LOVE AMONG THE RUINS" (1953) BOOKPLATE ON THE FRONT PASTE-DOWN ENDPAPER. D.J. HAS A BIT OF WEAR AT THE CORNERS AND SPINE-ENDS WITH A SPINE AND REAR PANELS LIGHTLY TANNED, AND A TINY BIT OF EDGE WEAR IN A FEW SPOTS. A VERY NICE COPY. DUST JACKET IS NOT PRICE-CLIPPED. FIRST EDITION. Binding is HARDCOVER.
Seller: JOHN LUTSCHAK BOOKS, BURLINGTON, WI, U.S.A.
WAUGH, Evelyn. Tactical Exercise. Little, Brown and Company, Boston, 1954.
Price: US$100.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: First edition. Faint stain on the foredge else about fine in a very good dustwrapper with some modest toning on the spine and a few small nicks and tears.
Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.
Waugh, Evelyn. Tactical Exercise. Little Brown, 1954.
Price: US$100.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: First American edition. DJ Good with minor losses. Cover boards VG. Text VG. Overall Good.
Seller: Doodletown Farm Books, Ancram, NY, U.S.A.
Waugh, Evelyn. TACTICAL EXERCISE. Little, Brown,, 1954.
Price: US$116.00 + shipping
Description: TACTICAL EXERCISE, Little, Brown, 1954, 1954, lst ed., just about fine in a vg+ dust-wrapper with some light dust-soil to the rear dust-wrapper panel. Not published in the U.K.
Seller: THE FINE BOOKS COMPANY / A.B.A.A / 1979, ROCHESTER, MI, U.S.A.
WAUGH, Evelyn (1903-1966). Tactical Exercise [Love Among the Ruins]. Little, Brown, Boston, 1954.
Price: US$139.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: First and only Edition (never published in the United Kingdom), including the first American appearance of Love Among the Ruins (published in England as a separate book). 8vo: [6],289,[1]pp. Publisher's finely woven sea-green cloth, spine lettered in gold, dust jacket illustrated by Lester M. Peterson and priced $3.75. A clean, fresh copy (apparently unread); about Fine unfaded jacket (spine ends gently rubbed, white lettering on spine panel lightly toned). Davis XXXIX. A collection of short pieces, opening with "The Curse of the Horse Race," which Waugh supposedly wrote when he was seven years old. Eight of the other twelve pieces were written before and during the Second World War, including the title story, then titled "The Wish. Also included are "Love Among the Ruins," a fantasy of the future and satire set in a dystopian quasi-egalitarian Britain, featuring Miles Plastic, who falls in love with Clara, a bearded woman and inmate of a state-run euthanasia center where Plastic works, and "Mr. Loveday's Little Outing," another satire set in another institution, this time a psychiatric one . N. B. With few exceptions (always identified), we only stock books in exceptional condition, with dust jackets carefully preserved in archival, removable mylar sleeves. All orders are packaged with care and posted promptly. Satisfaction guaranteed. (Fine Editions Ltd is a member of the Independent Online Booksellers Association, and we subscribe to its codes of ethics.).
Seller: Fine Editions Ltd, Lancaster, PA, U.S.A.
Waugh, Evelyn. Tactical Exercise. Boston; Little-Brown ; 1954;, 1954.
Price: US$175.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First edition ; Not published in the U.K. ; VG in VG DJ with edge wear and slight loss to head & tail of spine, top of DJ and at corners; not price clipped, previous owner signature.
Seller: Walt Barrie Rare Books, gleneden beach, OR, U.S.A.
Waugh, Evelyn. Tactical Exercise. Little Brown and Company, 1954.
Price: US$240.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: First Printing. DJ in archival cover spine sunned edge ware price clipped. Stated first edition.
Seller: J. Mercurio Books, Maps, & Prints IOBA, Garrison, NY, U.S.A.
Waugh, Evelyn. Tactical Exercise. Little, Brown & Co, Boston, 1954.
Price: US$250.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: First Printing. Stated First Edition. DJ in archival cover, chips, rubbed, edge wear, and spine sunned.
Seller: J. Mercurio Books, Maps, & Prints IOBA, Garrison, NY, U.S.A.
Waugh, Evelyn. Tactical Exercise. Little, Brown & Co, Boston, 1954.
Price: US$275.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: First Printing. Stated First Edition. Only published in the US. Unclipped DJ in archival cover, chips, toning to rear of cover.
Seller: J. Mercurio Books, Maps, & Prints IOBA, Garrison, NY, U.S.A.
Waugh, Evelyn.. Tactical Exercise.. Little, Brown & Co., Berkeley, 1954.
Price: US$325.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: First American Edition. A Fine copy in dark smooth greenish-blue cloth, in a Fine dustwrapper of same hue, not price-clipped. 289pp. Short fictional pieces. Uncommonly nice copy. Q14296
Seller: Compass Rose Books, ABAA-ILAB, Kensington, CA, U.S.A.
WAUGH, Evelyn.. Tactical Exercise.. Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1954, 1954.
Price: US$382.21 + shipping
Description: First edition, first printing of this short story collection that was only published in the USA. Octavo. Original dark green cloth, titles to spine gilt. With dust jacket. A couple of small nicks to the lightly bumped spine ends, endpapers and edges of text block mildly toned. An excellent copy in a bright jacket with very light toning to flaps and edges of rear panel, a couple of nicks and minor chipping to tail of spine.
Seller: Peter Harrington. ABA/ ILAB., London, United Kingdom
WAUGH, Evelyn. Tactical Exercise. Little, Brown and Company, Boston, 1954.
Price: US$450.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: First edition. Fine in fine dustwrapper with slightest toning. A beautiful copy.
Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.
WAUGH, Evelyn.. Tactical Exercise.. Boston Little Brown and Company, 1954.
Price: US$3327.50 + shipping
Description: First edition, inscribed by the author; 8vo; bookplate to front free endpaper, else internally fine; publisher's teal cloth, gilt lettering to spine, extremities faintly rubbed, upper edge and spine sunned, with the original unclipped dustjacket, the faintest of abrasions at head of spine, else fine, housed in modern teal cloth clamshell box. Presentation copy of this first edition of short stories, for which there is no British equivalent, inscribed by the author to the front free endpaper, 'For Frankie / with love from / Evelyn / Christmas 1954'.
Seller: Shapero Rare Books, London, United Kingdom